Attitude Change and Cognitive Dissonance

Auster, Donald

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“…About 55 years ago Social delusions, cybernetics, and temporal refusal Auster (1965) uncovered empirical evidence of how cognitive dissonance theory is connected to mass persuasion. In linking Auster's work with modern-day networked realities of teaching and learning, we may come to see the widespread dissemination of online education as a virus that has already replicated itself, perhaps as a shared social delusion.…”

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Resistance is Futile: Cognitive dissonance, temporal refusal, and the e-learning environment as cyborg

Rose

2015

E-Learning and Digital Media

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This study uses interpretive sociological methods to explore parallels between fictional accounts of cyborgs and educational technology-based practices currently present in some e-learning environments. Specifically, the cyborg in fictional accounts (Star Trek and Doctor Who) and the cyborg in academic accounts (Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto) are used to frame an analysis of the potential of regarding e-learners as cyborgs. Two social scientific concepts are revisited in this analysis: cognitive dissonance (social psychology) and temporal refusal (critical sociology). These conceptual lenses reveal that the various modes of operating in the online classroom have assimilating tendencies threatening to draw us into a mass social delusion. Considering the science fiction trope, ''Resistance is Futile'', the author proposes that the promotion of ''best practices'' sublimates us into the domination of a particular educational philosophy. Recognizing this type of oppression provides space for temporal refusal -withdrawing from the potentially assimilating ''Borg'' when it threatens to be disadvantageous to education. Her conclusions lead the author to suggest the need for a critical reflexivity in teachers to identify and take advantage of opportunities to resist the absorption of distinctiveness in the online educational environment.

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Section: About 55 Years Agomentioning

confidence: 99%

Resistance is Futile: Cognitive dissonance, temporal refusal, and the e-learning environment as cyborg

Rose

2015

E-Learning and Digital Media

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Attitude Change and Cognitive Dissonance

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Resistance is Futile: Cognitive dissonance, temporal refusal, and the e-learning environment as cyborg

Resistance is Futile: Cognitive dissonance, temporal refusal, and the e-learning environment as cyborg

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